I don't get the point how do you determine the difficulty level of Battleship puzzles.

The Free Puzzle of this week (ID 08090103175) is marked as "Easy". Okay, you can fill the second row (with the "0") instantly, but then I got no idea how to progress and I solved it only by "try and error": setting a field randomly and let the check function tell me if it was correct, until I got a state where the puzzle was indeed "easy".

I've managed to place some water but can't find my first ship square. If you look at the vertical and horizontal crossovers of 1 clues, you'll see a second/third level impossibility in the larger number rows/columns. This is the only advice I can give and does feel akin to trial and error. I think this must be mismarked as I've been doing Battleships for 10+ years.

Wow, I came to the forum for the first time today to see if anyone had suggestions on this Battleship. Glad I'm not the only one who is not finding this one "Easy". I keep looking at it and trying to figure out what I'm missing. I know I could solve it using trial and error, but I don't care for that kind of logic.

Thanks for the hint about looking at the crossovers of the 1 clues. After that, I used the third and fourth vertical columns (with clues 4 and 3 respectively) and was able to figure out a couple of ship squares.